Atrahasis "Extra Wise"

Language: Akkadian
Text: 3 Tablets (1245 lines) of which 60% is preserved. The best preserved c. 1636 B.C. (OB, Sippar); others from Ras Shamra (MB), Nippur; late fragments from Nineveh in late NA (Ashurbanipal).
Provenance: Sippar, Ras Shamra, Nippur, Nineveh (late NA), Babylon (NB)
Date: Old Babylonian-Neo-Babylonian
Story: creation of man; population control: diseases, plagues, the Deluge; further population control solutions; origins of human birth, marriage, procreation, mortality
Hero: Atrahasis (flood hero)